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or all or his five listed suggestions:.
1. Elimination of all extended
vacation periods and school days
taken for county institutes.
z. fro visions lor making up
school' work for individuals miss
ing school or anticipating ab
sence.
ibis to Plain
For Cooperation in Harvests
Means by which schools may cooperate in helping with har
vesting spring and fall crops without jeopardizing educational
opportunities of the more than 200,000 school children of the state
were listed Thursday by, Rex Putnam, state superintendent of
puDiic instruction.
The suggestions, he j declared,
were an outgrowth of conference
With ehnnl arimintsfratrn-e In
areas that may be critically af
fected by the' Impending labor
shortage and with employment
agency officials. : t
MThe state department of edu
cation urges that schools take
suitable steps In cooperation
with the employment service to
meet the labor emergency in
affected areas through se of a
method or methods fitting the
local harvesting problems, he
continued.
"It should be recognized, how
ever, lhat national security re
quires a long-view educational
program which should hot be un
necessarily impaired and that the
total number of school children
needed to supplement the regular
workers in seasonal 'Crops Is only
a small percentage of the more
than 200,000 school children in
Oregon, andl therefore any pro
gram adopted should not jeopard'
Ize the educational opportunities
of the many, but should be ar
ranged to meet the labor needs
with the least loss possible to chil
dren needed and working in the
fields," he declared.
Tll that tttm atala
A r a WW. . Mr
law prohibits conducting school
on Saturday, Putnam said di
rectors and school administra
tors might meet emergencies in
their own areas by use of any
3. Opening and closing dates of
school adapted to local conditions,
with the fact kept in mind that a
full school year should be taught
4. Examination of possibilities
of conducting daily school sched
ules on a half-day basis during
harvesting seasons.
5. Use of service of state de-
pr tment ol education in iincung
methods of meeting problems not
solved by any suggested plan.
Manila Mayor
Said Loyal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-JP)-J,
M. FILzalde, resident commission
er of the Philippine common
wealth, declared Thursday there
is no question of the loyalty to the
United States of Jorges Vargas,
mayor of Japanese-occupied Ma
nila.
He referred to German radio
broadcasts telling of Vargas' ap
pointment, and asserted the ap
pointment was made by President
Manuel Quezon, before Manila
fell, upon advice of Major General
Douglas A. MacArthur.
"The Americans who have to go
through the ordeal of staying there
should be pretty damn glad Var
gas is there," Elizalde said.
have as much confidence in him
as I have in my brothers." Two
of Elizalde's brothers are in the
Philippines and have not been
heard from.
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War production Director Donald Nelson called his war production board together for the first session at
Washinrton. DC and the members took the opportunity to Josh William S. Knodsen on his appoint
ment as a lieutenant general in charge of war department procurement. Seated clockwise, starting at
lower left: Price Administrator Leon Henderson; James V. Forrestal, undersecretary of navy; Federal
Loan Administrator Jesse Jones: Secretary of Navy Frank Knox: Nelson: Vice President Henry A.
Wallace, chairman of the board of economic warfare; Undersecretary of War Kobert P. Patterson, and
Knodsen. Standing- left to rlfht: Herbert Emmerich, execnUve secretary to the board, and John Lord
O'Brian, general counsel.
Chiefs Discuss US War Strategy
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Gen. George C. Marshall (left). United States chief of staff, and Sec
retary of War Henry L. Stimson scan a map of the world as they plas
war strategy and cnecx positions ox troops.
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SWEGLE Swegle school board
met Tuesday with Mrs. Grannell
Sheets presiding.
Two recommendations of the
executive board were considered.
It was voted to ask each family
in the district with children in
school to contribute 50 cents to
pay for the hot lunches the re
mainder of the school term instead
of having the annual chicken din
ner.
Mr. Nelson reported that sur
plus commodities for the luncheon
must now come from the Portland
office and they would be deliv
ered by truck if orders were on
file in that office.
The president was asked to ap
point a committee to find a leader
for a Boy Scout troop. There are
now 18 boys between the ages of
12 and 18 in the district. On this
committee are Mrs. William Mc
Kinney, Mrs. Merino Dalke and
Mr. John Marshall.
The nominating committee for
the officers for next year's PTA
are Mrs. Charles Bottorf, Mrs
William McKinney and Mr. John
Marshall.
The speaker for the program
hour was State Superintendent of
Schools Rex Putnam. He spoke in
formally of school and home prob
lems. Music was furnished by the
school's girl chorus, a piano solo
by Elda Herr and community
singing. Mrs. William McKinney
read an article from the National
association magazine.
Monday night Swegle school
board met at the home of Homer
J. Conklin, who has just returned
from a month's stay at the rail
road company hospital in San
Francisco, where he was with a
broken leg. He has a walking
cane but is unable to go out.
Special to The Statesman
NEW YORK Ladies and gen
tlemen, if you will kindly hold
onto your pocketbooks the man
agement has been informed that
there are' thieves; in the house
we will announce the latest roster
of champions in the line of lar
ceny
Most histronic thieves: Five
bandits in Los Angeles they
dressed up like laundrymen, in
white caps and gloves;
1 Most uncertain thief: In Chi
eaga he walked into a candy
tore five times, baying sods,
leigarettes and gun, before rob
bing It en the sixth trip;
Most nostalic: In Salt Lake City
he stole a 1930 model coupe;
Most honest: In Tale, Ore
he cashed a worthless check
candidly signed "No Funds;" .
Most foresighted: In Newton,
Mass. he brought along a rub
ber bone , to distract the watch
dog;
Second most foresighted: In
Kansas City stealing some nigs
from an apartment, he also took
along a vacuum cleaner and
carpet sweeper;
Gloomiest: In Salt Lake City-
he stole 15 sketches of a ceme
tery;
Dumbest: A three-way tie,
between a thief In Jacksonville,
NC. whs left behind his social
security card: a thief in Boise,
Idaho, whtif stole a car with
the license" number 1; and a
thief In Orangeburg. SC who
stole a ear and absent-mindedly
scratched his name on the fen
der; Nerviest: In Los Angeles he
held up a street car conductor
and then demanded a transfer;
Most opportunistic: When a
Wilkinsburg, Pa., store put a rug
on the sidewalk to show how it
would wear, this thief waved
spectators aside, rolled up the
rug, and walked off with it;
Boldest but most impractical:
At the Texas state fair he rob
bed the exhibit of the US secret
service ... of one dollar . . .
counterfeit one. . . .
Oh, Sam!
OSC Professor
Addresses Club
INDEPENDENCE Dr. Frank
Parr of Oregon State college was
the guest speaker at the meeting
Tuesday of the Independence
Woman's club. Mrs. Bruce Spaul-
ding, Dallas, was guest soloist
- The club voted to sponsor the
victory book campaign.. Mrs. F
G. Hewett, city librarian will
take care of these books to be
brought during the open hours of
the library., Each Woman's club
member is asked to bring a vol
ume with her name and address
written Inside.
The 1942-43 program commit
tee was announced to be Mrs.
M. J. Bulter, Mrs. Hugh Ams ber
ry and Henrietta Wolfer.
The hostesses, Mrs. Robert
Harris, Mrs. Keith Reich and
Mrs. William Campbell served
tea from a table centered with a
low arrangement of white chry
santhemums in silver. Pouring
were Mrs. T. D. Pomeroy and
Mrs. Joe Rogers, Jr.
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"BATTLEFIELDS OF
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Studio Gives
Gable Time
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22-jP)
Clark Gable will return to work
at MGM studio as soon as he has
recovered, physically and men
tally, from the shock of the air
plane crash death of his wife,
Carole Lombard, the studio an
nounced Thursday.
"We are leaving it to Clark to
tell us when he is ready to re
sume work," a studio official
said.
Gable started a new picture,
"Somewhere 111 Find You," the
day before Miss Lombard and 21
others were dashed to death high
on a Nevada mountain.
Call Board
Special U The Statesman
gadget of youri goes on the blink,
don't blame priorities or saboteurs
until you make sure there isnt a
bug in it. And we mean a bug . . .
When a big plant down in Tif
ton, Ga, apparently didn't use a
bit of electricity for a whole
month, they discovered that the
light meter had been" put on the
fritz by an adventurous boll wee
vil (pop goes the weevil) . . .
The Lima, Ohio, police radio was
knocked out of commission by a
single fly that short-circuited a
condenser . . , And in Kansas City,
a red ant got; between the elec
trical contact! of a switch and
stopped a 87-car freight train . . .
In Snow Hill Hd, a swarm f
bees chewed the insolation off a
telephone line. (Don't tell as
bees cant chew these were too
young to smoke . . .) . . .The
gasoline line In a car at Kear
ney, Neb- got clogged ap by a
python (Just a snake la the gas
. . .) ... And a family f mice
set cp hoosekepelng ia the
Saratoga Springs, NT reserva
tion's rain range ... or maybe
you'd say they set up mouse
keeping . .if
From all this you might infer
that the animals are, getting ec
centric. And; rou'd be absolutely
right (And now do you want to
try the. ten-dollars, animabl?
. .) ) rj
Out at Scott Field, I1L, they
had a tame' flying squirrel that
insisted on sleeping between the
sheets in a soldier's bunk
Down in Lumberton, SC, there's
a dog thai chases out every
morning at " breakfast time and
eats some ripe tomatoes off the
vine . . . And in Portland, Ore,
is a cat that . dislikes bells and
knocks down the telephone every
time it rings.
Any time the animals aren't
f wacky enough themselves, , all
you have to do is listen to the
stories about, them
A man In Corning, NY, says
he has a dog that jumps off his
boat and regularly retrieves
-fish , . . A man in Fair Oaks,
NC, reports that his. hens wade
into his fish pound and eat
all the minnows . . . And a
fanner In Juneau, Alaska, com
plained that his cows were
catching so many salmon in
the river (hat their milk tasted
fishy. So does the story ...
Out at Pratt, Kan, fish hatch
ery tney claim the fish got to
know the sound of the truck that
brought food, so well that one day
when the truck broke down and
a substitute one was used, the fish
didn't even bother to come to the
surface . . .
A fisherman at Middletown,
NY, reported giving an injured
fish a slug of applejack, and the
fish started coming to the shore
every day for his ration . . .
And a Pratt, Kan, man says
the worms? in his garden stay
buried all Week, but come right
to the surface on Sundays, when
he wants to go fishing.
Oh, Sam! '
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